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Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2011
This commentary argues that the typical representation of exiles and immigrants in literature be distinguished from their representation in the law, where they are often given not to descriptive and plaintive expressions of their plight, as is the case in so many literary texts, but to simple affirmations of their existence.
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This commentary argues that the typical representation of exiles and immigrants in literature be distinguished from their representation in the law, where they are often given not to descriptive and plaintive expressions of their plight, as is the case in so many literary texts, but to simple affirmations of their existence.
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, 2010 Illocution, attitudes and prosody
2014Through the analysis of an audio-visual corpus of Brazilian Portuguese prosodic attitudes, this paper describes the effect of attitude category on the prosodic realization of sentences. Attitudes that directly address the propositional content of utterances, which in fact correspond to new illocutions, were found to induce more changes in the acoustic ...
Moraes, João Antônio, Rilliard, Albert
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Journal of Pragmatics, 1989
Abstract This paper tries to demonstrate that threats cannot be assimilated to illucutionary acts. Menacing is shown to be a very special type of perlocution, which cannot be held to be a counter-example to the “conventionalist” theory of speech acts, for which all illocutions are convention-constituted actions. The analysis proposed tends to confirm
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Abstract This paper tries to demonstrate that threats cannot be assimilated to illucutionary acts. Menacing is shown to be a very special type of perlocution, which cannot be held to be a counter-example to the “conventionalist” theory of speech acts, for which all illocutions are convention-constituted actions. The analysis proposed tends to confirm
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Unenriched Subsentential Illocutions*
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2011In this paper I challenge the common wisdom (see Dummett and Davidson) that sentences are the minimal units with which one can perform a speech act or make a move in the language game. I thus sit with Perry and Stainton in arguing that subsentences can be used to perform full‐fledged speech acts.
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Illocution and Power Imbalance
2023Abstract This paper examines the role of speech as regards certain kinds of power imbalance. It introduces and illustrates exercitive illocutionary acts, consisting of the exercise of authority or influence and affecting the rights and obligations of the participants.
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AbstractThis chapter argues that, while Austin is renowned for putting forward the notion of performative utterance, his real discovery is that of illocution. It provides an account of Austin’s view of performative utterances and argues (on the basis of manuscript notes of his) that he passed from the characterization of performative utterances to the ...
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Illocution and Social Relations: A Critical Analysis
Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2021exaly